Manti Te'o

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — DeShone Kizer was learning to become Notre Dame's starting quarterback while struggling as a third-stringer and mulling a switch to baseball.

Kizer watched while Everett Golson and Malik Zaire competed for the starter's job in spring 2015, before Golson transferred to Florida State for his final season, and learned from Golson's "win from within" mentality.

"He really showed me how to be an elite competitor is to be able to compete against yourself and not really worry about the guy next to you. That's the way Everett was. So that whole competition kind of showed me the ins and outs of how a quarterback competition at an elite...

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